Video Capture from Comcast Digital Cable

[akacali]

? Comcast Digital Cable Recording ?

My question seems simple but after searching the web I am left in a confused state. Although the setup I’m looking for could be used in multiple ways I am only interested in one particular function right now. I want to be able to record music vidz off my Comcast digital cable and transfer those files to my PC where I can then convert the vidz into smaller files so I can fit many vidz on a DVD which will then go into my car and ultimately be playing on my headrest LCD screens.

My original thought was to go with a stand alone Pioneer DVD recorder with an 80gig hard drive. This way I could record the vidz while I was gone at work. When I got home I would pick the ones I wanted to keep and burn them to DVD. Then I would take the DVD to my computer and copy them down. This thought was shattered once I found out that the DVD recorder did not have a tuner that would reach over channel 125. Most of my recordings will be above the channel 125 range. I do not have an HD box, just a Comcast digital cable box.

My second thoughts was to build a PC and record the vidz to the hard drive then transfer the files over Ethernet to my ‘Master’ PC to do all the editing but once again I can’t find a tuner card that would take the signal. I was unsure on how I would separate the videos, would it look like just one big 2 hour recording or can you actually split the vidz up later?

Anyway, I just want a setup that works whether it be a stand alone machine or simply adding a card to my current machine. Money isn’t really of any concern so please don’t feel like you have to suggest a system that is cheap. Don’t get me wrong I don’t want to spend thousands of dollars but I am willing to spend more than a few hundred for this functionality. I do not care about pausing live TV nor do I care about fast forwarding through commercials.

My current bedroom setup:

TV:
42” Toshiba Widescreen HDTV
2 RF tuner inputs (only one used currently)
2 Component inputs
2 S-Video inputs + 1 in front
2 Composite (RCA) inputs +1 in front

1 DVD Player over Component
1 VCR player (no longer hooked up)
1 Comcast digital cable box (black) over coaxial

PC:
Asus IC-7 Motherboard
Intel P4, 2.1c Ghz, oc’d
1 gig Geil Dual DDR PC3700 RAM
2 Raptor 36gig 10K SATA drives setup as RAID 0
1 Maxtor 200 gig 10K SATA drive for storage
ATI Radeon 9800 256mb video card running dual LCD display setup
10/100baseT LAN and 54G Wireless card (currently wired to the Linksys router)
Sound Blaster Live (old I know BUT great for audio capturing)
Logitech DiNovo Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse
Windows XP, SP2

HELP PLEASE

[edDV]

Cable Box -> S-Video + audio ->

1 DVD recorder with HDD (pick songs and burn DVDR)
2 Capture card in computer
3 Pass-Thru DV Camcorder to IEEE-1394 input on computer.